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Petari |
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Sep 2, 2013 4:17am |
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Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt |
I DL-ed it twice (14GB) and in both cases getting errors - unexpected end of archive. Able to unpack only some 30% of content.
And I compared both downloads - they are same in bit. So, error is not in downloads, but on Archive host server.
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aibek |
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Sep 2, 2013 7:31am |
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Re: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt |
You are probably referring to this:
http://archive.org/details/Atari_ST_TOSEC_2012_04_23
Please compare the md5 or sha1 hash of the downloaded file with the ones here:
http://ia801602.us.archive.org/35/items/Atari_ST_TOSEC_2012_04_23/Atari_ST_TOSEC_2012_04_23_files.xml
If they match, then please report the corruption on the item’s page as a review.
After that, here is a suggestion. As the IA project page says, the collection is merely a mirror of the TOSEC collection maintained by Jason Scott at
http://www.tosecdev.org/index.php
So, you may look for the Atari file on that page, and whether they match the corrupt IA file or no, inform Mr Scott. If they match, he has to upload the master file anew from his archives. If they do not, he has to correct the IA file.
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Updated: The error is probably not this. The IA files seems to be OK as I can browse it online. (i.e., the IA zipview-er is able to correctly unzip the file.) Check my other answer!
This post was modified by aibek on 2013-09-02 14:31:23
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Petari |
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Sep 2, 2013 12:07pm |
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Re: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt |
Right. In meantime I got WinZip and with it was able to unpack everything. I tried with Total Commander and WinRar - somehow don't like WinZip. So, archive is OK.
In any case, it would be much better to have so large archive
split in multiple parts - max 1GB ones for instance. It is not best to DL so large file, and if there is some error you need to DL whole again, instead only part where is error - what happens sometimes when DL .
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aibek |
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Sep 2, 2013 6:09pm |
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Re: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt |
I think it would be useful if you mention which programs worked, and which did not on the item’s details page.
I agree that such large zipped files are not a good idea.
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Petari |
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Sep 3, 2013 1:00am |
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Re: Atari ST TOSEC is corrupt |
I wrote review with my experiences of depacking problems and what SW is not good, and what worked.